The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-07-07
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LAcONCS PICKED UP HERE AMI
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

Happy is the man who pays for his home
paper and happier is the publisher.
The recent rains have caused tobacco to
come in more freely. All grades sell well.
See our Fourth of July flag. The GOLD
LEAF is patriotic as we'll as live and neWsy,
always.
E.W Currin & Co, expect to furnish
prepared wet refreshments to many OF the
eXcursiOniats.
Mr. Phil g. Abbott who lives near town,
sent the GOLD LEAF the first cotton bloom
of the season July 1st.
The rain of Monday came in good time
and will be worth many hundreds of bar
rels Of corn to this section.
Be ready in time for the excursion next
Wednesday. The train will leave Ilender-
son at 1880 i'll the morning.
The stentorian voice Of the Fourth of
July orator made the welkin ring through
out the country last Monday
The free concert to be given by the Hen
derson Chorus viii take place at BurwelI
Hall next Tuesday evening, July 18th.
The cholera hoax and forty-a- day-dying
stories about henderson have taken back
scat since the last issue OF the GOLD LEAF
The most considerate man we know IS
the one who objects to warm weather be-
cause hc dislikcs to impose Oil his pore re-
latiOms.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. f. Young returned home
Tuesday afternoon from a pleasant trip to
Saratoga and other Northern points OF i'll
terest.
The GOLD LEAF presents for the first
time this week a number of new adver-
tisemcnts to which it invites the attention
Of its readers.
Business men who do not advertise say
bv their actions that they have all the trade
they want and do not wish to secure any
new customers.
The GOLD LEAF acknowledges the re-
ceipt Of ticket of invitation to attend a
big picnic and ball to be given atScotland
Neck Friday, July Sth.
If you believe in encouraging home en-
terprises, patronize the GOLD LEAF. 1t is
Il home paper III fact and III tIuoh, and it is
for home first, last AM all the time.
Another fine rain Monday. If crops
hereabouts don't do we'll this year it can
not be charged up to Providence, unless
things change considerably from now on.
Do you owe the GOLD LEAF anything !:
If so we would be glad if you would pay
the samc-or part thereof. We need all
the money that is due us, i'll the prosecu-
ton of our business.
\ nice assortment of new articles i'll the
jewelry line just received at Z. f. Nights
Beautiful designs and novelties in watch
chains, scarf pins, cuff buttons etc. Every
thing sold at reasonable prices.
The GOLD LEAF is the paper that has
lab0red for the interest Of Henderson and
Vance county-EoW we'll it does not be-
come Us to say. And we are going to give
You ''some more of the same sort.
We agree with what the Admission Hot
Blast says in the following: No trade
Journal that is published has devoted more
of its energy and effort to aid in the adj
vancement of the South than the Baltimore
Manufacturers Record. Every Southern
man and trader should subscribe for it.
What Henderson mostly needs now is
manufacturing enterprises. There are
many men at the North engaged in small
industries, who might be induced to come
here and establish similar enterprises il
our midst if the proper effort should be pu
forth and reasonable inducements held on
to them.
Our RingwOod correspondent, &c. E
NJ" writing under date of the 4th, say
crop prospects are fine in that section, bot
corn and cotton. The tobacco crop in tn
Avent neighborhood of Nash is very prom
Using. Not more than half as much p!ante
as last year, but prospects are much bette
for good tobacco.
To give some idea of the extent to whic
the disease has prevailed throughout tn
State, we mention the fact that the Jun
number of the Bulletin of the North Ca
Olina Board of Health reports dysenteI
and bowel troubles as prevailing in % nil
out of A counties reported. In some loca
tiles it has been of very malignant typ
Col. VIM. II. 5. Burgwyn was appointt
one of the committee representing Il
State Agricultural Society to 60 to Was
ington to invite President Cleveland to q
tend the exhibition next October. lmpo
tant business in Boston, Mass, demandt
his presence and attention at the time, al
much to the Colonies regret he could II
go to Washington.
We hope that all persons to whom bill
for subscriptions to the GOLD LEAF ha'
been rendered, or who know themselv
indebted to us, and who have not as Y
given the matter a tangible response. wi
please do so at their earliest cOnvenienc
This notice is not intended to convey t
idea that we are distruStful, but it is rath
an exposition of our necessities.
DR.. F. r. Harris, Superintendent
Health of Vance county, reports to t
Bulletin of the North Carolina Board
Health for the month of June, as follow
Measles. dysentery and whooping cou
have prevailed III the county general
With these exceptions the health OF !
county is very good. Our Jail is just II
ished and received by the county.
Now is the time for our farmers to nal
their manure. Every wet rainy day VIII
they cannot pillow, they ought to have a
hands ralling and hauling litter, compos
ing and preparing for the next crop. The
is little time for idlenesS with the thrift
and industrious farmer. And besides, |
ter and other material for composing
just twice as easy raked and hauled no